Chapter 73: Decision
My mother was killed by Fred’s uncle?
Talia couldn’t believe what she was hearing for sometime and she could feel her automatically getting away from Fred.
She loved her mother, so much. She still remembered her smell and her smile. She had the prettiest smile and there was none prettier than her mother.
Her mother would make her dinner every night and would read her stories to bed every night. Her mother would take her out, dressed her prettily and would also make her the best chocolate cake.
Talia still remembered how excited she was to have a little brother and that day they kept her away from her mother because her mother was having the baby and she was not supposed to disturb her. She cried and threw a tantrum and so she was allowed in for a minute and she still remembered the smile her mother put on for her amidst her pain. Her face was covered with perspiration and although they tried to cover everything, she could see a lot of blood through the gap. She remembered getting scared.
"Be a good girl, Talia" her mother said smiling, "You can meet your little brother soon... Mummy loves you!"
She left the room obediently as Cyrus carried her. Standing outside the room, she could hear her mother’s cry and not able to bear it she walked out in the garden while Cyrus stayed outside the room.
She wanted her mother to be okay and to see her little brother.
That’s when someone told her about the Church on the other side of the creek. She was told that if you light a candle in that Church for her mother, she’d be fine. And so she went there.
But her mother wasn’t okay and she didn’t even see her brother. She heard he looked a lot like her grandmother.
Talia then remembered the words her grandfather said during the wake of her mother. She didn’t like to sit there in that long table with others. She wanted her mother and they all said her mother went to heaven. But she wanted her mother and cried. She always gets what she wanted if she cried.